324 THK CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Arizona, which seem to me probably immaculicollis, Jac, yet they do not 

 fully agree with my only Mexican example of that form ; the Arizona 

 examples are rather more regularly punctate-striate and have a small 

 shield spot; the Mexican specimen has a very indifferent shield and the 

 stria not very well marked. 



A NEW SPECIES OF ANISOTA. 



BY H. H. BREHMK, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY. 



Anisota Neomexicana, n. sp. — Male : — Expanse, 50 mm. Head and 

 body, ochreous-brown. Fore wings dark ochreous-brown, shaded slightly 

 darker outside the extradiscal line. Extradiscal line faint, purplish brown 

 in colour, more distinct toward inner margin ; begins on the costa near the 

 apex and extends in an even outward and inward sweep three-fourths 

 across the wing, then with another outward and inward curve reaches the 

 inner margin about one-third the length of the inner margin from the anal 

 angle. Discal spot white, large, round and conspicuous and surrounded 

 with a dark ring. Hind wings purplish-red with brownish cast at base 

 and at inner margin. Beneath, rather evenly purplish-red, but paler than 

 upper surface of hind wings and with an ochreous cast at base of both 

 wings and on costal area of fore wings. Discal spot of primaries feebly 

 reflected. 



Female : — Expanse, 64 mm. Head and body uniform ochreous. 

 Fore wings very soft grayish-brown with a distinctly ochreous tinge. Ex- 

 tradiscal line faint and diffuse, pale purplish in colour, running in the 

 same manner as in the male. Discal spot white, large and round. 

 Ground colour of hind wings as in fore wings, but with a purplish tinge, 

 especially centrally. A single broad, faint and diffuse line extends straight 

 from the above outer angle on costa to a little below the centre of the 

 inner margin. Beneath ground colour as above, without the ochreous 

 tinge, but with a decidedly purplish cast throughout. Lines of upper 

 surface very faintly reflected. 



Habitat : Fort Wingate, New Mexico, June 29. Described from six 

 males and ten females. Allied to Anisota sufiretna, Pack., but differs in 

 the colour of the abdomen, which in Neomexicana is ochreous, not black 

 as in supremo,, and in the male by the hind wings being purple instead of 

 black. 



September, 1909 



